Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage North
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The End of the Colombo War
Krisham like myself being Tamil was forced to watch as members of his community was subjected to this kind of violence while he was able to pursue his interest study decide to go and pursue a pursue an academic career. Krisham's response to the end of the war had taken a more inward direction thinking of that period now he was slightly taken aback by the quiet intensity of his reaction but the unhealthy fervor with which he tried to reconstruct that situation from which he'd been spared. There was an element of self-hatred in these labels he knew it desired to punish himself for what he'd escaped by exposing himself to it as violently as he could.
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